Laura: Creating Peace Out of Wholeness

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 3 p.m.

With so much turmoil and uncertainty happening around us, finding wholeness \u2013 with oneself and one\u2019s community \u2013 is especially important. This week\u2019s guest, Cantor Laura Stein, shares her perspectives on how we can best care for those around us, the (lack of) tension between being Jewish and being a lesbian, and how her spiritual leadership inspires her social work at Mount Sinai Hospital's Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery. \u201cI see\u2026my work with the patients as trying to bring wholeness to their lives,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd for my patients in particular [to] look in the mirror and see who [they] are in a way that reflects who [they] truly are\u2026spiritual pursuit is about [making] the world more whole. I really see that as beginning with these individuals.\u201d